No, I am not on strike because I don’t understand what the hell there is to strike about! Not being a “celebrity” blogger, I just blog for myself and to share an insane thought or two. If you find my blog not updated, it’s usually because I am either busy, lazy, bored or have a real emergency to attend to. Really, I don’t care to spread lies, slander, demean or shame anyone through my blog or any other channels of human communication known to man. Unless you are blogging for money, I thought blogs was a means for personal self-expression or to speak out against issues that matter to you….errr…but not for toppling governments. Unless there is something rotting there already that is, so I am not sure what the fuss is all about. The rule is if you post crap on your blog, you attract flies who love the rot and the stink! Same goes for anything rotten in Denmark, or Malaysia, for that matter!
But sometimes, I do use the blog as a way to flash my middlefinger salute using words just to show my likes or dislikes. I suppose we all need to let out our aggression, especially with the exasperating political scenario and the frustrating rising cost of living whether using hand gestures or otherwise. So, with the latest uproar in Parliament caused by an MP flashing what was perceived to be an obscence hand gesture as reported in The Star here, I think a bit of education on do’s and dont’s of gesticulating is called for right about now. I found an interesting post on the Language Trainers Blog that lists “The top 10 hand gestures you’d better get right“. I’m not sure what the hand gesture made by Bung Mokhtar meant but take a look at some good versus bad gestures below and guess which is which?:
Political hand gestures
If you watch Friends back in its heyday, you’d remember Ross and Rachel’s hand gesture war. Or was it Ross vs his sister, Monica?
My favourite hand gesture is Dick Cheney’s!
waaaa, i didnt know there were such things. i better be more careful. i always thought it would be cool doing that v thing
Hi diagnosiscrime and kawan mak embam,
It is actually a matter of perception, aptly illustrated by Dick Cheney.
A British colleague once told me he found out that the thumbs up gesture, which is supposed to be a sign of approval in most cultures, is an obscence hand sign in another country, I forget which.
So, really what do we do if politicians gesticulate on live TV? Tut, tut, tut!!!